I am submitting a paper to the C.C.C.G. conference. I am satisfying the conferences document format requirements but using amsart document layout with some modifications. I need to use the amsart document layout because I need some of the amsfonts and things like theorems. Unfortunately I must submit my document with two columbs but amsart layout refuses to allow me use wide figures which I need for my paper. This is a difficulty with the latex class amsart and not with lyx. First question: 1) What is the simplest way to use wide figures in combination with amsart.layout? Should I instead try to build a new document class with all the features I need from the amsart document class. The conference requests that I use the command "dvips -m -D 1200 -o file.ps file.dvi " to build my postscript file. Of course I can do this by first exporting my lyx file to a latex file. This works but it clumsy. There must be command that I can add to the lyxrc file that will have this be done automatically. Second question: What command do I add to the lyxrc file to do this? I am using lyx 1.0.4 and have read the documentation. Should I pick up a a version of the documentation for a newer version of lyx or is the lyx 1.0.4 documentation the best for using lyx 1.0.4? I assume the next stable version of lyx will be 1.2. When it is released I hope to convince our sysadmin guy to install a new version of lyx. Any idea when lyx 1.2 might be released? Thanks Ralph Boland